A midday fire at the Lusignan Prison which was triggered by searches for drugs and illegal items, has been completely extinguised. A number of inmates who were injured are being treated for minor injuries. The fire was reportedly set by angry inmates at an old building in the prison around 12:30 as prisoners started a…
(CRICINFO)-West Indies went 1-0 up in England for the first time since 2000 thanks to a superb 95 from Jermaine Blackwood which guided them to a target of 200 on the final day with four wickets to spare. Their seamers had set up the win with a burst of five wickets on the fourth evening just…
Ranks of the Guyana Defence Force have been deployed to assist members of the Police Force, Fire and Prison Services who battled a huge inferno at the Lusignan Prison facility on the East Coast of Demerara. Police and army ranks at the scene [Photo: News Room/July 12, 2020]The News Room understands that a section of…
Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield on Saturday handed in his final report on the elections to the GECOM Chair showing the incumbent APNU+AFC with the majority of votes, but one of the PPP nominated Commissioners, Sase Gunraj, has already brushed aside the report as an “eyepass” saying that Lowenfield was in violation of the instructions…
The Ministry of Public Health today confirmed that another COVID-19 death has been recorded, taking the total number of fatalities attributed to the pandemic in Guyana since March, to 17. The Ministry noted that it will provide further details on the patient. Guyana has recorded 290 positive cases of the Coronavirus to date.There are 140…
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is expected to meet on Monday to decide on what to do with the country’s Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, and the elections report he doctored in favour of the David Granger-led APNU+AFC Coalition. Lowenfield, in a brazen rebellion of GECOM and its chair Justice Claudette Singh, Saturday presented an…
The Guyana Defence today announced that the recently appointed acting Chief-of-Staff, Brigadier Godfrey Bess and a high level military team met today with the Diplomatic representatives of the US, UK, Canada and the EU. While not divulging details of the meeting, the GDF in a Facebook post said the Chief of Staff reiterated the “apolitical…
…AG says as GECOM chair orders Lowenfield to submit report based certified valid votes from recount …sees breach of constitution with directive By Svetlana Marshall CHAIRMAN of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), Justice (Ret’d) Claudette Singh, has ordered the Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield to prepare and submit a fresh Elections Report in accordance…
The following statement from the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres was released by his spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric. “The Secretary-General takes note of the 8 July ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice, as final instance. “He stresses the importance of announcing final official results of the 2 March general and regional elections to the Guyanese…
The Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission has written to the Chief Election Officer, Keith Lowenfield requesting that he prepares and submits a new report from the 2nd March elections using the valid votes counted in the National Recount as they appear on the Certificates of Recount. The Chief Election Officer has up until 2pm…
